Staff
Lesley Adams, Rogue Riverkeeper - lesley (at) kswild (dot) org
Lesley is a graduate of Southern Oregon University with a B.S. in
Environmental Studies/Biology. She served as Co-Director of the Ecology
Center of the Siskiyous for two years. She currently sits on the grantmaking committee of the MRG Foundation.
Lesley served as KS Wild's Outreach Director for five years and coordinated various activities for KS Wild, including the door
canvass, website, film series, event planning, volunteer coordination
and material development. In October 2008 she began developing KS Wild's new Rogue Riverkeeper program, which will keep an eagle-eye on river polluters, help enforce water laws and work to protect and restore water quality and native fish populations.
Dave Levine, Administrative Director - dave (at) kswild (dot) org
Dave has lived in southern Oregon for five years. A 1981 graduate of Yale University, he has long been committed to environmental conservation and sustainable land use. He comes to KS Wild after more than a decade running his own business making cabinetry and furniture. This experience is helping him to streamline the bookkeeping and administrative duties at KS Wild. He has also taken on the role of grants administrator, working to ensure continued funding for KS Wild's conservation work. Dave lives and works in Williams, OR.
Gary Powell, Door Canvasser
Gary has a degree in Broadcast Communications
from Southern Oregon University. He lived in Mexico and Central America
for three and a half years where he studied at the University of
Guanajuato, Mexico, taught English, and worked as an Occupational
Therapist in a TB hospital. Recently, he was a canvasser for Americans
Coming Together (ACT), and Democracy Resources. Gary is on the board of
Planned Parenthood (Legislation Action Team). His passions are organic
gardening and love for nature.
George Sexton, Conservation Director - gs (at) kswild (dot) org
George is a graduate of the Lewis & Clark Environmental Law Program and has been forest activist for over 10 years. He has worked with for the Oregon Natural Resources Council, the Northwest Environmental Defense Council, the American Lands Alliance, and the Oregon Wildlife Federation. He has had several impressive victories such as shutting down old-growth logging in Salem, OR's municipal watershed and defeating several old-growth logging proposals near Eugene OR. George is now responsible for monitoring about 3 million acres of federal land in the Klamath-Siskiyou. George also coordinates KS Wild's participation in local, regional, and national lawsuits to protect biological diversity of the Klamath-Siskiyou.
Laurel Sutherlin, Grassroots Organizer - laurel (at) kswild (dot) org
Laurel is a graduate of Prescott College with a M.A. in Environmental Studies. He is a grassroots organizer with more than a decade of experience mobilizing communities, coordinating campaigns and building the movement for forest advocacy. He is a trained naturalist and environmental educator who specializes in using these skills to inspire people to protect the biodiversity surrounding them. Laurel spent two years on the Board of Directors of KS Wild and currently sits on the Board of the Birch Creek Arts and Ecology Center.
Stephanie Tidwell, Executive Director - stephanie (at) kswild (dot) org
Stephanie has a M.A. in journalism and a graduate certificate in environmental policy from the University of Colorado School of Mass Communications. She has a B.A. in applied anthropology from Appalachian State University. Prior to coming to KS Wild, she served as Executive Director for the Utah Environmental Congress, which does work similar to that of KS Wild throughout the state of Utah. She has also worked on wildlife conservation and sustainable living campaigns for many years and serves on the Board of Directors of the Klamath Riverkeeper.
Joseph Vaile, Campaign Director - joseph (at) kswild (dot) org
Joseph graduated with honors from Edgewood College with degree in Biology. He has done advanced coursework in Conservation Biology at Southern Oregon University. Previous to his tenure at KS Wild, Joseph gained experience working with the Bureau of Land Management as a wildlife biologist. Joseph coordinates KS Wild's campaigns and participates in regional and national conservation issues. He also represents KS Wild in collaborative efforts to restore national forests.